Applied Arts and Health

Applied Arts and HealthEdited collection presents diverse approaches in creative arts engagement, with emphasis on creativity and wellbeing in education and community development. Focussing on applied arts and health practice, research, scholarship, expressive arts therapy, community and education, it advances integrative and multimodal art based processes. 62 b&w illus.

in a way that connects with twenty-first century minds

An ethnographic exploration of research ethics committees in the UK

improving art education and its chances to survive the twenty-first century as a respected and relevant school discipline

the only authoritative early text

Topics considered range from why Patrick Pearse's ideas about education were ignored to why Ireland has been recently so open to large-scale immigration

In a novel about a novelist writing a novel that mirrors the novel he is in

parties and interests in the US and Britain responded to the financial crisis and the ‘Great Recession’ that followed in its wake

This unique collection of seminal

Across the Art/Life Divide argues that the most defining feature of contemporary art is the ongoing interest of artists in the problematic relationship between art and life

dual expectations

The guide describes the ‘lifeline’ of the credit insurance product

The book brings together authoritative chapters by leading experts in the sociology of Elias